Overview

Whether in German rap or in code noir: bastard children are everywhere. They occupy us with questions of origin, contamination and desire. Because every bastard child has a mother who gave birth to it. With the fathers, the situation is sometimes less clear.

Die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie beschäftigt sich mit gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Phänomenen, die das Zusammenleben in verschiedenen Gesellschaften prägen. Dabei interessieren sich Sozial- und Kulturanthropolog*innen auch dafür, wie Geschlechterordnungen entstehen und wie diese wiederum auf menschliche Handlungsweisen wirken.

The TALKING OBJECTS LAB is a research project dedicated to the decolonization of memory and knowledge. Since 2021, it has been unfolding in workshops, think tanks, symposia, artistic interventions and exhibitions in Germany, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria and on the internet.

The dominant understanding of knowledge and education is that they are something good and desirable. Post- and decolonial perspectives show that education is not good per se. It is a product of powerful production processes that are part of a continuity of coloniality.

“What if history is haunted by cyclical violence, precisely because it has not been told properly? What if the ghosts of the past, inhabit the present, as monsters and birds? And what are heroines for?” These questions are at the very center of Grada Kilomba’s opening lecture-performance.

In this seminar Grada Kilomba explores the art of performing knowledge, creating decolonial exercises and using her unique artistic practice, in which she gives body, voice, form, movement and image to her own writings. “What is knowledge? What is acknowledged as knowledge?

As speaker of the GRADE Center Gender, Prof. Sarah Speck cordially invites you to a welcome meeting for new members and a networking meeting for all GRADE Gender members. Sarah Speck will inform about new funding opportunities and gather feedback/requests for workshops and activities.

In this seminar Grada Kilomba explores the art of performing knowledge, creating decolonial exercises and using her unique artistic practice, in which she gives body, voice, form, movement and image to her own writings. “What is knowledge? What is acknowledged as knowledge?